Word: snap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...units shown were old Tsarist models of creaky vintage. Such airplanes as appeared seemed to be copied from obsolete U. S. models. The Red Army was unconsciously shown to be a stumblebug which has plenty of weapons but will take years to learn to use them, and to develop snap and guts for fighting...
...behind the Modern Museum's new photographic venture is David H. McAlpin, grandnephew of the late John D. Rockefeller Sr. A precise-minded shutterbug who clicked his first camera in 1906, balding, snap-eyed Mr. McAlpin spends many a spare moment from his Manhattan brokerage business getting fragments of the world on film. A collector of fine and rare photographs, McAlpin has long felt that U. S. museums ought to do more for photography. When, a year ago, he gave Manhattan's stodgy Metropolitan Museum $1,000 to buy photographs, the Metropolitan's board of trustees...
There were about 5,000 birds. They protested loudly when the men came near, refused to get off their nests until the men were close enough to snap pictures (see cut). The nests, about a foot across, were of grass lined with soiled white down. There were four creamy white eggs in the average clutch. The men took two goose specimens and five eggs, started back down the river. Last week the specimens and eggs were safe at the Canadian National Museum in Ottawa, and it was announced to the world that the breeding ground of Ross's goose...
...them half the striking power of some of the newer 1,500-ton destroyers, yet they are manned by a crew of only nine, including one officer. For crews they need men who have the make-up of good pursuit pilots, men who do their jobs precisely but can snap their fingers at care...
Boston's Institute, nursed from its founding by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, was weaned two winters ago, a year after Jim Plaut became its director. A Harvardman (1933), he took art as a snap course. Since then Jim Plaut has had two great ambitions: to get permanent quarters for the Institute; to put on the first big Rouault show in the U. S. The quarters he got from Mrs. Joel Goldthwait, mother of Nathaniel Saltonstall (first cousin of Governor-re-elect Leverett Saltonstall), who is the Institute's president and Boston's most eligible...